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Seattle sports arena achieves historic zero-carbon milestone

Construction Specifier

This certification is awarded to buildings that demonstrate exceptional energy efficiency and significant reductions in carbon footprint while offsetting the remaining embodied carbon and energy use through high-impact offset programs. A nighttime view of the building’s facade.

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Code Compliance & Beyond: Upping Baseline Building Energy Performance

Stok

Due to their embodied carbon and operational carbon footprints, buildings play a significant role in these efforts, so understanding the impact of legislation on buildings is critical. This directly translates to building energy codes. And, the result of this baseline? And, the result of this baseline?

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How digital tools are helping the construction industry to choose carbon-smart materials

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Our latest white paper, ‘Building Net Zero and The Role of Data in Green Construction’ , investigates the current landscape for sustainability in construction across APAC – as well as potential solutions. billion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) in 2020. Green construction is enabled by powerful technology and digital tools.

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The Start of Celebration: the 2023 Yearbook of Engineering Achievement

Civil + Structural Engineer

It features elements that maximize the safety, security, and efficiency of the travel process including 100 percent automated screening lanes, 100 percent facial recognition “e-gates” for international departure, an innovative landside terminal design, and 100 percent trackable RFID Independent Carrier System.

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BSL conversions: A cost-efficient method to support high-containment research

BDC Network

Mike Moreland and Ross Ferries Laboratories Contractors Designers Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Engineers Facility Managers Architects Building Owners When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the United States in 2020, the American research community experienced a sudden spike in funding.

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The next steps for a sustainable, decarbonized future

BD+C

The next steps for a sustainable, decarbonized future 0 qpurcell Thu, 03/02/2023 - 13:03 Sustainability For building owners and developers, the push to net zero energy and carbon neutrality is no longer an academic discussion. Government regulators are increasingly requiring that buildings perform more efficiently.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities Rankings Report

Business Facilities

When jobs stopped getting created (and in many areas employment was still hemorrhaging), we introduced the concept of growth potential as a key measure in our flagship rankings categories. The state also fully implemented its Tennessee Educator Acceleration Model (TEAM) educator evaluation system. Auto Giants Keep Getting Bigger.